With first week sales of 83,648 (including 41,795 from paid-for downloads), the album – which has already spawned four Top 40 singles – falls short of the 90,336 copies its immediate predecessor, 1989, sold when it opened atop the chart three years ago last week. Reputation has not yet been made available for streaming, and 1989 wasn't switched to that model for nine months after release.

Ironically, streams make up the majority of the sales that 1989 secured in the latest frame, accounting for 1,472 of the overall tally of 2,361 that help it to climb 59-54. It is, by far, Swift's biggest selling album with a to-date tally of 1,150,889, of which 69,669 are from streams. Its nearest rival is its 2012 predecessor Red, which sold 61,779 copies when it debuted at No.1 and has now sold 634,636 copies (including 34,555 from streams). Swift has very impressive overall sales of 2,824,164 albums and 11,303,560 singles.

Swift is the third female solo artist to land three albums at No.1 in the 2010s, following Rihanna and Lana Del Rey.

The 13th different album to lead the chart in as many weeks, Reputation secures the year's sixth fastest start for an artist album, trailing Ed Sheeran's ÷ (671,542 sales), Rag'N'Bone Man's Human (117,101 sales), Take That's Wonderland (113,211 sales), Liam Gallagher's As You Were (102,660 sales) and Sam Smith's Too Good At Goodbyes, which opened last week at No.1 on sales of 97,328 copies but now shunts down to No.2 (52,781 sales) to accommodate Swift's arrival.

Guiness World Records - 2018 EditionTaylor Swift is the Top Earning Female Pop Star. We estimate Taylor Swift - United States - to have earned 170 million dollars from 06/01/2015 to 06/01/2016 according to Forbes. The singer and songwriter who has sold millions of copies on the back of hits such as "Shake It Off" holds several records, including most weeks at number #1 on the Billboard Top 100 Artists (31) - as far as March 2017.

I think it's interesting to compare this with the 15/11/2014 Billboard 200 chart in which 1989 made it's debut (chart was album sales only then).

15/11/17 Billboard 200

84 79 – 81 Red, Taylor Swift177 197 – 221 Fearless, Taylor Swift

Red and Fearless are both lower than during 1989's debut week, but they are also 3 years older now. Speak Now did not re-enter the chart during 1989's debut, and 1989 is doing better than Red was at the time of 1989's release, even if we account for album sales only (1989 is at #73 on Top Album Sales this week).

To determine the top songs of 2017 (upon which the Hitmakers list is based), Variety teamed up with BuzzAngle Music, which created a custom chart that factors audio streams, video streams, song sales, radio spins and Shazam tags. These 30 most consumed tracks of the year are ranked below, with the total number representing overall consumption in project units. The BuzzAngle Hitmakers chart represents year-to-date consumption through Nov. 2.

Swift's career U.S. album sales stand at 31.4 million. She's the 23rd-best-selling album artist since Nielsen Music began tracking sales in 1991, and the fifth-best-selling woman, after Mariah Carey (55.2 million), Celine Dion (52.8 million), Shania Twain (35 million) and Britney Spears (33.6 million). Garth Brooks leads all artists with 71.9 million albums sold in that span.And …

A part of Britney's total is made in the 90's so if she's not already she's very close to become the biggest female albums seller of the 2000's.

Yes, she is. But probably neck and neck with Adele.

Within the U.S. I am almost certain that she is the number one female album seller of the 2000s. Britney sold at least 6 million albums in 1999 and Adele has around 25 million if I estimated right (3+12+9.4+1)=25.4.

With the way the industry is changing, depending on how Adele's next album performs, Taylor will probably keep that title for the rest of the century.